An official shows on a map an area where an Air Algerie plane is supposed to went missing, on July 24, 2014 in Ouagadougou. An Air Algerie plane with more than 110 people on board including French and Spanish nationals went missing on July 24 during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers. A source in Mali said that contact with the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was lost over Gao in north Mali, a region that was seized by jihadists groups for several months in 2012 and that remains very unstable despite the Islamists being driven out in a French-led offensive. AFP PHOTO / AHMED OUOBA